Infinite City, as a tropolis, was itself a colossal Kaidan. This was common knowledge within the Kaidan circle of Infinite City and could even be easily found in the library.
But no one knew how such a high-tech park could have turned into a Kaidan.
After all, no matter how much it accumulated the decadence, pain, confusion, and despair of generations from the Eastern Country, it was ultimately without consciousness, and it was impossible for the people of the Eastern Country to subconsciously endow a community with consciousness. Even if there were one or two with chuunibyou, it was improbable for everyone to simultaneously believe that the city was alive.
So, how did Infinite City co to life?
Was it truly first transford into a phantasm, then beca an on, and ultimately regained consciousness to beco a Kaidan?
Then how did such a large high-tech park turn into a phantasm?
Feng Xue narrowed his eyes, and his gaze uncontrollably shifted to the school model, until now, he had finally focused his attention on the scraps of paper that served as cultivation soil.
"These must be those test papers; well, it seems that the mosaic has piled up to such a terrifying degree due to the endless days and years of exams."
Feng Xue flipped through the scraps of paper, and under the gaze of the Golden Finger, most were Pseudo Artifact templates. This was quite normal; except for those inherently with elents of [Regeneration], [Repair], [Infinite], etc., phantasms would typically crumble into Pseudo Artifacts upon being destroyed. Feng Xue often exploited this chanism, recasting useless phantasms after destroying them.
However, a very small number of phantasms unexpectedly acquired elents like [Damaged] after they were damaged, but that was not only rare but also useless.
But now, Feng Xue had to think one step further—that is,
"The [Identity] that created these phantasms must have co from this on, which is like taking bricks from the east wall of my house to repair the west wall, and then taking them back from the west wall to repair the east wall. After shuffling bricks back and forth, both walls ended up fixed, and miraculously there’s even a surplus. What kind of division paradox is this?"
Feng Xue grinned, but then another question occurred to him—
Why couldn’t he print phantasmal test papers anywhere other than the Audio-Visual Room?
He previously thought that the teaching building itself was an independent Kaidan or phantasms, or there might be so phantasm like a rule book or school regulations specifying that test papers had to be printed in the Audio-Visual Room.
But the on now confird that the entire school, including the teaching building and dormitories, even encompassing the sports field and the ring of storefronts around the periter, was all within the power range of the on. So why could papers only be printed in the Audio-Visual Room?
He didn’t believe that the on could be smart enough to channel specific [Identities] to specific areas.
"No, that’s not right. Maybe I’m thinking too narrowly! Like how the will of a phantasm itself doesn’t activate its powers, the on’s ability to create phantasms might not be from its subjective consciousness but perhaps so external arrangent."
With this thought, Feng Xue couldn’t help but consider the predecessor who had not yet resurrected, sensing there might be so strategy involved.
At the sa ti, Feng Xue recalled the Ghost King he had encountered during a previous visit to a grave.
"Back then, I thought the Ghost King wanted to beco a Kaidan, but didn’t know the exact thod, thus adopted the stance of a conscious on. But now, thinking about it, his behavioral logic from the beginning was probably aid at becoming an on, or to say, every stage in this ga is actually designed to create these domain-like ons that can control entire stages."
Thinking this, Feng Xue suddenly felt that his previous thoughts were beginning to connect. Perhaps the reason Infinite City could beco a phantasm, and the papers printed in the Audio-Visual Room could beco phantasms, was the sa?
But upon realizing this, another bigger bug erged.
When he saw the Ghost King before, Feng Xue thought this predecessor wanted to create a Kaidan world in the Mortal World similar to Infinite City, to resurrect himself on the "pseudo-Infinite City" Kaidan and beco a true ’ancestor of Kaidan.’
But it seems that what the predecessor wanted to create was not a Kaidan but an on.
Assuming that the predecessor did not fail to resurrect due to so accident but intentionally made such a commotion to return in a stronger manner, then why choose an on?
After all, even without the systematic education of Kaidan (Infinite City is the only one with such education), any Kaidan could feel the intense Pollution emanating from them. Even the desperate Infinite from Infinite City, only a very few would choose to rge with an on to seek a sliver of life. How could a powerful Kaidan make such an unwise decision?
Although there was no clear answer, Feng Xue vaguely felt that the reason why the on could proliferate [Identity] within a relatively closed Cycle might precisely be the reason for the predecessor choosing the on.
So, is this reason related to "test papers can only be printed in the Audio-Visual Room"?
All questions returned to the beginning, yet Feng Xue suddenly felt that he might vaguely grasp a certain key.
The specific location, the specific behavior, could that be the correct way to create a phantasm?
Considering this, aren’t the so-called Companion Phantom Objects of Kaidan just things that Kaidan used at a specific ti and place to do sothing specific?
Does this an that labeling and creating a phantasm, even using his own Golden Finger to create a phantasm, are essentially "heretical"?
"Co to think of it, I’ve had a similar feeling long ago that the ti and place where a True Object is used as a base for recasting, as well as the template for recasting, all affect the formation of the phantasm.
"I used to think it was the ’True Object elent’ that the Golden Finger couldn’t observe affecting the outco, but thinking about it now, isn’t this so-called True Object elent just the omnipresent Cognition in reality?
"Based on this logic, can we roughly assu that locations and actions with symbolic significance help to gather [Identity]? And in an environnt where [Identity] is sufficiently concentrated, phantasms corresponding to it can easily be born?"
As for why there were particularly many test papers in this school...
"Perhaps at first, they were all sorts of phantasms, but because of the high consumption of test papers in the school, the probability and quantity soared. As a result, in the [Identity] that composed this on, the portion belonging to test papers increased, and the newly made papers were more likely to produce phantasms. Over ti, the number of papers just kept increasing."
All the clues ca together in Feng Xue’s mind to form a complete logic, but this logic was still missing the final link—
How [Identity] proliferated.
This question wasn’t difficult; once the overall logic was established, the answer was obvious:
"The process of students answering questions, pouring their thoughts, their contemplation of the problems, and their anxiety over their grades, all of these are [Identity]!"
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